Hidden inside crumples sit clumpers, crumples, and scrumple, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clumpers, crumples, and scrumple tie for the highest Scrabble score from crumples at 14 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in crumples: two come from rearranging its letters, and crumples itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clumpers, crumples, and scrumple, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crumples produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clumper and crumple, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crumples turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with muscle. For points, the strongest plays are clumps and crumps — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crumples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clues, cruel, cures, curls, curse, lumps, and lures. For points, the strongest plays are clump and crump — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in crumples produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, cues, cups, cure, curl, lump, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are ceps, culm, cums, cups, cusp, lump, merc, pecs, perc, perm, plum, puce, rump, scum, scup, spec, sump, and umps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling crumples turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cup, per, rep, rum, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cum, cup, pec, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in crumples. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, pe, um, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in crumples and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
crumples is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for crumples. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
crumples is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing crumples unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clumpers, crumples, and scrumple, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from crumples earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in crumples produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.